"Deceit to secresy confind / Lawful cautious & refind / To every thing but interest blind / And forges fetters for the mind."
— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Author
Work Title
Date
w. c. 1793? [in MS]
Metaphor
"Deceit to secresy confind / Lawful cautious & refind / To every thing but interest blind / And forges fetters for the mind."
Metaphor in Context
Love to faults is always blind
Always is to joy inclind
Lawless wingd & unconfind
And breaks all chains from every mind
Deceit to secresy confind
Lawful cautious & refind
To every thing but interest blind
And forges fetters for the mind
Always is to joy inclind
Lawless wingd & unconfind
And breaks all chains from every mind
Deceit to secresy confind
Lawful cautious & refind
To every thing but interest blind
And forges fetters for the mind
Categories
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Ed. David Erdman, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982), 472.
Date of Entry
07/14/2011
